Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Michael Fallon Excerpts
Tuesday 6th September 2011

(12 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Danny Alexander Portrait Danny Alexander
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This deficit reduction plan is essential to restoring credibility to British public finances, which is critical to keeping interest rates low, as low interest rates help to keep people in their jobs and in their homes. That is the argument for the plan.

Michael Fallon Portrait Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the borrowing and revenue figures are now completely independently audited by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility and are no longer the completely unreliable and overtly political forecasts that, as we now know, were forced on the previous Chancellor by the previous Prime Minister?